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G. W. MOORE & D. A. MOORE, Jr.

UPHOLSTERING ROLL.

Patented Sept. 7 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. MOORE AND DAVID A. MOORE, JR., OF GUTHRIEVILLE, PA.

UPHOLSTERlNG-ROLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,634, dated September 7, 1886.

Application filed January 23, 1886. Serial No. 189,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. MOORE and DAVID A. MooRE, J r., citizens of the United States, residing at Guthrieville, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Upholstering-Rolls; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of a portion of alength of a roll constructed in accordance with our invention, and Fig. 2 a section thereof showing it attached to a base and the upholstering cloth secured around it.

The present invention has relation to what is known in the art as upholstering-rolls, which, previous to our invention, were produced by first fastening one edge of the cloth by tacking to the piece of furniture to be upholstered, and afterward taking a quantity of cotton or other material and by hand forming it into a roll, and the roll thus made held while the cloth was drawn over and tacked below upon the under side of the roll, which, as will be seen, was a slow and tedious method in upholstering.

It is the object of the present invention to avoid this slow method of producing upholstering-rolls and dispense with the usual filling material above described, thus enabling a more perfect and Symmetrical roll to be formed with comparatively little trouble and in a very short space of time, which objects we attain by a roll formed complete of suitable material and having a fastening strip or flange for securing it to the object being upholstered, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the roll provided with a strip or flange, a, for securingit by tacks orin any other desirable manner to the object to be upholstered, as shown at b. This roll may be of any size, and of wood, veneer, sheet metal, card-board molded from paper-pulp or of a suitable composition, and may be a solid roll, or, as shown in the drawings, this being left to the discretion of the manufacturer.

In the production of the roll in upholstering the edge of the cloth B is first placed against the object, as at b, and the strip or flange a over it, and the two secured by tacking or otherwise. After this is done the cloth B is tightly drawn over and around the roll A and fastened by tacking immediately under he roll, thereby forming a perfectly symmetrical roll, and one that will preserve its shape and uniformity, while it dispenses with the old way of tacking strips over the edge of the cloth, as the roll and strip in the present invention'are all one, no stuffing or packing of cotton or other filling being necessary or the making of the roll by hand from such material.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An upholstering-roll provided with a fastening strip or flange, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE V. MOORE. DAVID A. MOORE, JR.

Witnesses:

E. H. GRAVES, F. L. CAMPBELL. 

